Should police be able to use cellphone records to track suspects – and law-abiding citizens?

When smartphone apps get permission to access your location or other activity, they often share that data with other companies that can compile digital profiles on users.

Consumers can't read, understand or use information in companies' privacy policies. So they end up less informed and less protected than they'd like to be. New research shows a better way.

Nobody can understand the legal language in privacy policies. Can artificial intelligence digest the text and produce a human-readable explanation?

Most of today's computer languages make it hard for programmers to protect users' privacy and security. The fix is to take those tasks out of human hands entirely.

Recent developments at the United Nations and the G-20 suggest that the well-known human rights to privacy and freedom of expression may soon be formally extended to online communications.

The FBI and police officials say they need to decrypt secure communications to fight crime. But they have other options, and modern threats make clear the importance of strong encryption.

Have you ever checked your phone thinking you had felt it vibrate or heard it ring, only to see that no one tried to reach you? One researcher decided to study this phenomenon.

Phone snubbing, or 'phubbing,' has become a real relationship downer.

Are you moody? Prone to distraction? Cellphones may act as a high-tech pacifier.

According to a new analysis, the number of US teens who felt "useless" and "joyless" grew 33 percent between 2010 and 2015, and there was a 23 percent increase in suicide attempts.

Digital textbooks might be less cumbersome. But a new series of studies finds that reading from screens can hamper our ability to process and retain information.